‘Roseanne’ Is The Highest-Rated TV Present Of The Season

After the season premiere set data with numbers that wouldn’t have seemed misplaced within the 1990s (a pre-Netflix period that looks like 500 years in the past), the Roseanne revival has settled into a snug rankings groove. The final three episodes, together with final evening’s return of David and Beverly, have grabbed between 15.2 and 13 million viewers, and that’s even earlier than DVR viewership is factored in. Roseanne can be doing very nicely within the all-important 18-to-49 demographic, as a result of if there’s one factor teenagers love, it’s Estelle Parsons.

When you embody delayed viewing, ABC’s Roseanne (23.three million general; 6.7 within the demo), is definitely the most well-liked present of the season, besting rankings titans like The Large Bang Idea (you made the incorrect selection, Johnny Galecki), the Tremendous Bowl-boosted This Is Us, and Sunday Night time Soccer. (The season started on September 25, 2017.) Nostalgia and controversy is an intoxicating combine.

The final time ABC claimed the season’s #1 present was 18 years in the past in complete viewers (Who Needs to Be a Millionaire in 1999-2000) and 24 years in the past in Adults 18-49 (Dwelling Enchancment in 1993-94)… Roseanne [also] helped prolong ABC’s profitable streak as Tuesday’s prime community in 18-49 (1.three score) to 4 weeks, the longest in additional than a decade. (Through)

Talking of [grunt noise]: Tim Allen lately mentioned that the thought for a Dwelling Enchancment reboot has “been floated. And greater than I might have anticipated mentioned, ‘Yeah, that might be cool to do it years later,’ like Roseanne. I like that concept.” If Michael “D.J. Conner” Fishman can get 20-plus million viewers, simply wait till you see the numbers Jonathan Taylor Thomas brings in.